Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Marc Nash - GoodreadsA father and son take turns to write chapters about family life as the son's schizophrenia gets progressively more problematic. The son's chapters are the most interesting in a way, as his chapters ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Petra X - GoodreadsForgive me my reviews when they descend into stories. Sometimes a book brings back memories that illuminate one or other for me and since most of my reviews here and elsewhere are unread by anyone ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Cole Roussos - GoodreadsHenry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story is exactly what the title states. Henry Cockburn came from a well rounded family with a younger brother, a loving father, and a ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Jim - Goodreadsthree different viewpoints in this book; henry (the son) has schizophenia, patrick (the father) is a foreign coorespondent and Jan (mother) an english professor. my copy is an advanced reader, the ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Amanda Green - GoodreadsI read this book in 2011 This is a combined story of a father and son's experience of schizophrenia – the son has it, and writes about his experiences of it, and his father narrates most of the book ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Lisa - GoodreadsI was surprised at how boring I actually found this book (I definitely have to echo others who have described it as dry and not very engaging). On the one hand, it was nice to read an account of a ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Cj Borosque - GoodreadsIn "Henry's Demons", (father) Patrick Cockburn and (son) Henry Cockburn write about Henry's descent into madness, and his tortuous travails breaking out of mental hospitals and often trying to swim in ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - Paul - GoodreadsAround 1990 my nephew had a psychotic episode. It was the culmination of a few weeks of increasingly eccentric behaviour. He grew up in a fairly happy-clappy Christian family (Baptist) but out of them ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - James - GoodreadsHenry's Demons by Patrick Cockburn is a very personal and informative reflection about how a family spent several years dealing the mystery and uncertainty of mental illness. The author's son's life ... Read full review
Review: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
User Review - GoodreadsA reasonable example of its genre, and with the added interest of Henry's and (uncredited in the authorship) his mother's writing in addition to father Patrick's. A useful addition to family memoirs ...
